During the student council musical chairs game at the pep rally Aug. 25, sophomore Abrea Snow got her fingers stuck in a folding chair.
“I don’t think it was an equipment failure,” Snow said. “I think it was the fact that my hand was so in there they couldn’t get it out in time, so it made the situation worse.”
Snow’s fingers were minorly bruised.
Student council sponsor Jenn Moore said this was an unfortunate accident.
“Honestly, kids get hurt in the halls just walking down the stairs,” Moore said. “Players get hurt on the field. Cheerleaders get hurt, you know, in their stances but even walking out to your car something could go wrong. I don’t think that there was anything to suggest this could have happened.”
The chair was in good condition before and after the pep rally.
“It was just a freak accident,” Moore said “In the future, we definitely won’t use chairs for anything.”
After being escorted from the gym, teachers helped Snow get her fingers out of the folded chair. Snow immediately received ice for her fingers.
“I was a bit surprised,” senior Alex Bosquez said. “It was strange to see someone manage to fight over the chair and just manage to get stuck. It was kind of incomprehensible that someone got their finger caught in the chair.”
World geography teacher Colton Hinds participated in the game, so he was one of the first teachers to assist.
“The way that I believe that this is going to affect future pep rallies is that we, as the teachers, need to make sure that the rules and expectations of a pep rally are followed,” Hinds said.
Student council will not use chairs for future games
“I do want to add that the buck stops with me for StuCo games at the pep rally, and I completely vouched for the idea. I still do,” Moore said. “The same kind of thing could have happened if we used the dots on the floor like last year. The only reason we won’t use chairs in the future is exactly because this did, indeed, go south.”
Snow does not think stricter rules would have stopped her fingers from getting stuck.
“The rules are perfectly fine how they are,” Snow said. “It’s just, things happen.”
